Ambassador Meeting Notes

The ambassadors meeting was really good last week, I took lots of notes but left my book in Wellington (I've gone to TGA for a week).
Im just posting this to remind myself to upload scans once I'm home!!!!
Sorry about this!

Stall Themes

I just thought I would post up some of the photos of possible stall themes that I have been collecting

One idea that Jarrod came up with was a Tiki theme:

I really like this idea, its really cool and unique. It might be a big difficult finding the right things to decorate the stall with though.

Bryce said that there might be some backlash due to cultural appropriation. We don't think it is a big issue though as we doubt anyone will complain...

This would be a cool idea because we can create an enclosed, darkened space that fits the theme.

Another idea is a tent filled with fairy lights etc - I could imagine this looking really effective from the outside

I have been thinking about the way our stall will be blacked out, the best solution I can imagine is to use a gazebo frame and then cover that with black fabric. For this tent look we could use a layer of white fabric over a blackout sheet underneath. I think this would work for whatever theme we choose, the only issue is sourcing a gazebo!

I could imagine the lights resembling glow caves, this could be simple and effective.

We also need to think about what we will wear as a team, I don't know if all black is okay??

We also thought that a glow/blacklight theme could be cool

This would be really simple and effective, I have a few lamps that we can use and I don't think backlights are very expensive. 

This would also work with the glow rings we have been using so far as the hoops.

We could wear all white so that we stand out under the light? I have also been told that tonic water glows under backlights.

Week 7's Presentation

As a group, we have been thinking that it would be a good idea to create a 90 second video for week 7's presentation in the paramount cinema.

90 seconds is a really short amount of time to explain our entire idea, and I've been looking at this link for ideas on how we can best communicate our concept to the rest of the cohort.    

The key points about our concept are:
-Engaging game based experience - Hoopla
-Punch and decorative bottle as a prize
-Set in a darkened space with cool lighting
-You get up to three tries per 'payment'


With that in mind, I came up with the following copy....

Team 29 is bringing a fun and engaging experience to the market palace; play our Hoopla game for the chance to win a some of our delicious punch, served in a decorative bottle!

-------

-Our stall will be set in a darkened space with glowing elements to create an exciting experience.

-------

-The aim of the game is to stand back and throw a glowing hoop around a bottle, which will be filled with our delicious cranberry based fruit punch.

-------

-Each bottle will be uniquely decorated with patterns, if you win the game you get to drink the punch and keep the bottle afterwards!

-------

 I think the footage we shoot should be fairly simple, maybe in the dark too? I can work on some more bottles when I get back to Wellington next week :)

Week 6 presentation!

All of our stuff so far set up to present to our peers, we filled the bottles with water and food colouring to make them look a bit more interesting. 

The trial of the punch

On Sunday Izzy and I purchased several mixers to concoct a few punches. We ended up choosing Grapefruit juice as a base flavour for one punch and cranberry for another. Apple juice was also used in both as a base but more as a fuller more then for flavouring. After a few trial and errors we came up with two flavours we thought were good enough to trial on Wednesday.

Bottles all lit up

Jarrod and I just shot some photos of the bottles on top of a light box. It looks best with a piece of card covering most of the surface, but the brown bottles become a little hard to see.

For the stall we think it could either be long and fairly narrow, or a squarish shape. 2x2 meters would probably be enough space. 

The glow rings work well as hoops, but they need to be doubled up so that it isn't too hard to throw them around the bottles.

Bottle sandblasting process

-The vinyl stickers are applied to the bottle.

-Sandblaster is used to rough out the glass.

-Heat gun makes it easier to remove the stickers. 

-Methylated spirits can be used to clean any sticky residue off.

Vinyl Cutting

Just a quick shot of the vinyl cutter cutting out one of the patterns jarrod made up. 

I'll sand blast this and two others this afternoon

Sandblasting Test

I tried out the idea of sandblasting a bottle to give it a texture/pattern:

I think it turned out really well!

We can achieve really cool patterns by using the vinyl cutter in the industrial workshop to mask out areas of the bottles before sandblasting them. For this test I just used some masking tape.

I've found a few examples of patterns I think could be incorporated into sandblasted textures:

Our concept storyboard

We made up a storyboard to describe how our market place stall would look/work:

Person would enter stall, they would see the lightbox with bottles on top, they can exchange tokens for glow hoops to throw, if their hoop lands on a bottle they get to drink it and keep the bottle! Each bottle would be unique!

We want our stall to have a really cool atmosphere, the punch would be secondary to the environment, bottles and the game. At this stage we are thinking night time tiki theme, or possibly carnival. Having a darkened stall would be cool because we would be able to light it with fairy lights etc. As the group ambassador this will be something I will bring up with the facilitators next week.

Week 5 - Meeting

Notes 1

Here's the notes from our last meeting

We have finalised our idea for the market place. We want to serve punch, but instead of just selling it we will set up a game for people to play; if they win then they get their punch!

Our concept is to set up a carnival-esque game where bottles of punch are set up on a lightbox at the back of our darkened space. People will come and pay for turns to throw a glow ring around a bottle, if they get it then they can drink the punch and also keep the bottle. 
We want to make the bottles special by painting them or possibly sand blasting them.

In week 6 we have to present physical things for people to try, I have included the page of things to do below... We have each decided what we will work on and can meet up again possibly in the weekend to take photos in preparation for Wednesday!

Our to do/to buy list

Notes 2

Blog Migration

We have decided to migrate our blog from Facebook to Blogger; someone recommended this as they said fit can be hard for tutors to access them from Facebook.

Instead of transferring all the posts I'll just summarise what has been going on over the 5 weeks...

Week 2: Our ideas for the market place included on-selling promotional material from existing businesses (coffee samples etc); a pop up store that sells all sorts of stuff; making our own products from recycled materials; and refurbishing existing furniture. 

We liked the furniture idea and began exploring the idea of creating 'Flat Furniture'. Cheap to produce furniture for students to furnish their flats with.

Some other ideas that we developed were to give people the opportunity to add to a mural that would be donated to charity, and a learning experience where you teach people how to make something new.
Going into week three, we decided to pitch the ideas of the make a wish concept, and a DIY craft station where you could make either a terrarium or a lamp (see post below).

We got a lot of votes on the DIY station ideas, but we needed to expand on them more so that there was more of a design process behind our project. We also didn't want to create anything too expensive, as a lot of people said they were just planning on bringing $10 to the market. 
In week 4 we really started trying to look into developing the idea of the experience of making. By the end of our meetings we had come up with the concept of a stand where you could come and use random pieces of interconnecting 'bits' that could be made into lots of different things. 

Notes from our meeting - Week 4

Week 2-3 Posters of ideas for market palace

Hanging lights got the most votes, to build your own unique hanging light to take home. Targeted at students for cheap unique ways of decorating their flats.

Build your own Terrarium got the second most votes, this idea will be making terrariums out of recycled bottles.

Make a wish got the least vote, to make a wish put it in a jar with 'fairy dust,' and other little bits and pieces.

This would be done as a experiment like the ice challenge on Facebook. For a while it will be donating to charity, we take a picture and connect it to social media, and then after have it just for the donation to  charity. Will this make a difference? or is donating now for 'self' purposes.